halflife

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by halflife 6mo ago
Subsidies can go to small businesses owners. Not just large corporations.
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by halflife 6mo ago
military commissaries are subsidized with taxes. So would these stores have lower prices because of tax subsidies? What prevents rich people from exploiting these subsidies?
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by halflife 6mo ago
Yes, and some people do that. Some consumers go to specific stores to purchase specific qualities of brands. But most do not, especially for convenience products. You get it where you can.
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by halflife 6mo ago
Interesting. I think it really depends on the competitiveness of the market. In a highly competitive market, every cost saved would be passed to the consumer, obviously this is simplistic microeconomics and doesn’t actually works this way.
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by halflife 6mo ago
Also in Israel, stable basic products (like milk) have a government mandated pricing, not even subsidized. It’s a good idea in its simplistic form, and works well most of the times, but once every 2 years you get a crunch where the manufac
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by halflife 6mo ago
Grocery costs has to come from some formula. If the mamdani stores actually do sell at a lower cost, where did the discount come from?
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by halflife 6mo ago
So they have an unfair advantage over the competition. Or it’s just a way to neutralize the ineffectiveness of the management, since it’s not profitable based, who’s going to be fired?
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by halflife 6mo ago
It’s about supply and demand. Luxury grocers provide a shopping “experience”, where low cost grocers do not. In a luxury neighborhood it would make sense the shoppers are looking for experience more so than low cost.
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by halflife 6mo ago
Because than people won’t come to your store. People buy where they can purchase the maximum of their shopping cart in a single place. That is why you have loss leader grocers, where they pull people with dramatic discounts on specific item
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by halflife 6mo ago
Of course, there is a term called coercive monopoly. It exists especially in large infrastructure projects where the startup cost is tremendous so only government, or a single entity without the possibility of competition can enter. Groceri
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by halflife 6mo ago
Not everything does - transport infrastructure, healthcare, sewage, for example do not. But economic viability -> competition -> research and development -> economic growth
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by halflife 6mo ago
I didn’t specify on the subsidies themselves. You can create subsidies which are inverse to the stores income. It doesn’t HAVE to go to large chains. There are many way to encourage small businesses to open. Competing with them is not one.
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by halflife 6mo ago
That may be, but you can direct subsidies towards inverse relation to the store’s income. You can even add extra taxes for large chains. But as others said, groceries are working on minimal margin. And all of them work with the same wholese
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by halflife 6mo ago
When you have a highly competitive market with plenty of actors lower cost does trickle down. Otherwise you’re talking about an extremely complicated cartel which cannot exist.
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by halflife 6mo ago
This sounds extremely non economically viable. The municipality which has monopoly on land taxes and costs will compete with stores that must pay taxes and rent? Won’t it just cause neighboring stores to close? Won’t a better option be subs
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by halflife 6mo ago
Kelet as in קלט as in input?
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by halflife 6mo ago
The react framework de jour. I wonder what would be the reason to rewrite react apps in 2027.
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by halflife 6mo ago
How about blowing smoke up ones ass? https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...
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by halflife 6mo ago
We need to research what the distance from mint plants on earth did to the Artemis crew.
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by halflife 6mo ago
My aura turned purple
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by halflife 6mo ago
I once sat next to a mint plant and it cured my cold, the farther I sat the better I felt. Obviously diluted mint particles in the air cured me.
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by halflife 6mo ago
So if both sides do not agree to that request it’s not part of the ceasefire, pretty simple.
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by halflife 6mo ago
So if I said instead that they fund terrorism across the world you believe me?
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by halflife 6mo ago
so the good guys attack Bulgaria because Israel?
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by halflife 6mo ago
Great job in being pedantic and missing the point.
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by halflife 6mo ago
lol at directly, meanwhile the houthis literally have “Death to America Death to Israel Curse on the Jews” written on their flag. You sure can pick the good guys.
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by halflife 6mo ago
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8rm14lkkvzo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Burgas_bus_bombing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMIA_bombing https://en.wik
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by halflife 6mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Burgas_bus_bombing Good ol genocidal Bulgaria I guess huh?
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by halflife 6mo ago
It’s amazing to me to see the amount of people willfully ignorant in this war, and having extremely short memory. In June we had the 12th day war with Iran, it also ended with a ceasefire which continued to negotiations which collapsed and
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by halflife 6mo ago
Don’t know if it’s related to the article, but the chats ui performance becomes absolutely horrendous in long chats. Typing the chat box is slow, rendering lags and sometimes gets stuck altogether. I have a research chat that I have to thin

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